Episodes
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Part 2 |Citizen Hearst | American Experience
S33 E44 - 1h 52m
William Randolph Hearst continued his rise to power and expansion into Hollywood. The model for Citizen Kane, he had a decades-long affair with actress Marion Davies, built an enormous castle at San Simeon, and forever transformed modern media.
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Part 1 |Citizen Hearst | American Experience
S33 E43 - 1h 50m
William Randolph Hearst builds the nation’s largest media empire by the 1930s. Born into one of America’s wealthiest families, he used his outlets to achieve unprecedented political power, then ran for office himself.
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Sandra Day O'Connor: The First
S33 E6 - 1h 51m
Discover the story of the Supreme Court’s first female justice. A pioneer who both reflected and shaped an era, Sandra Day O'Connor was the deciding vote in cases on some of the 20th century’s most controversial issues—including race, gender and reproductive rights.
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Billy Graham
S33 E5 - 1h 51m
Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he built a media empire, preached to millions worldwide, and had the ear of tycoons, presidents and royalty.
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American Oz
S33 E4 - 1h 52m
Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Baum never lost his childlike sense of wonder and eventually crafted his observations into a magical tale of survival, adventure and self-discovery, reinterpreted through the generations in films, books and musicals.
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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard, Spanish
S33 E42 - 1h 52m
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.
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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
S33 E3 - 1h 52m
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.
Extras + Features
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Trailer | Blinding of Isaac Woodard | American Experience
S33 E3 - 30s
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.
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Judge Julius Waties Waring
S33 E3 - 1m 7s
Julius Waties Waring presided over the trial of a white police chief who brutally beat and blinded Black soldier Isaac Woodard in 1946. He became an unexpected civil rights champion with rulings on several pivotal cases in the 1940s.
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Extended Trailer | Blinding of Isaac Woodard
S33 E3 - 2m
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.
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Chapter 1 | The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
S33 E3 - 10m 31s
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.
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Trailer | Voice of Freedom | American Experience
S33 E2 - 30s
Barred from performing in Constitution Hall because of her race, Marian Anderson would sing for the American people in the open air.
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Walter F. White
S33 E2 - 1m 18s
In 1930, Walter White took over as executive secretary of the NAACP. When the Daughters of the American Revolution barred Marian Anderson from singing at Constitution Hall. White had an inspiration that transcended the whole debate: a free, outdoor concert on the Lincoln Memorial steps.
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Extended Trailer | Voice of Freedom | American Experience
S33 E2 - 1m 40s
Hailed as a voice that “comes around once in a hundred years” by maestros in Europe and widely celebrated by both white and black audiences at home, Marian Anderson's fame hadn’t been enough to spare her from the indignities and outright violence of racism and segregation.
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Chapter 1 | Voice of Freedom
S33 E2 - 9m 18s
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Inscribed on the walls of the monument behind her were the words “all men are created equal.”
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The Voice of Marian Anderson
S33 E2 - 1m 9s
In 1925, 28-year-old Marian Anderson won a New York Philharmonic competition that drew national
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Chapter 1 | Goin' Back To T-Town
S33 E2 - 8m 29s
The story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation.
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Trailer | Goin’ Back to T-Town | American Experience
S33 E2 - 30s
The story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation. Torn apart in 1921 by one of the worst racially-motivated massacres in the nation’s history, the neighborhood rose from the ashes.
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Greenwood
S33 E2 - 1m 19s
In the early 1900s, a group of black businessmen purchased land in the northeast section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. They called their community Greenwood.
Schedule
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American Experience
The Vote
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Mar 29
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. -
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American Experience
The Vote
Friday
Mar 29
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. -
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American Experience
The Cancer Detectives
Friday
Mar 29
1 Hour
The fight against cervical cancer and three people whose work helped slash death rates from the disease by more than 60 percent. -
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American Experience
The Cancer Detectives
Friday
Mar 29
1 Hour
The fight against cervical cancer and three people whose work helped slash death rates from the disease by more than 60 percent. -
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American Experience
The Cancer Detectives
Saturday
Mar 30
1 Hour
The fight against cervical cancer and three people whose work helped slash death rates from the disease by more than 60 percent. -
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American Experience
The Cancer Detectives
Saturday
Mar 30
1 Hour
The fight against cervical cancer and three people whose work helped slash death rates from the disease by more than 60 percent. -
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American Experience
The Vote
Saturday
Mar 30
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. -
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American Experience
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Saturday
Mar 30
2 Hours
Author Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work challenges assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had been defined by the field in the 19th century. -
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American Experience
The Vote
Saturday
Mar 30
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. -
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American Experience
The Cancer Detectives
Saturday
Mar 30
1 Hour
The fight against cervical cancer and three people whose work helped slash death rates from the disease by more than 60 percent. -
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American Experience
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Sunday
Mar 31
2 Hours
Author Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work challenges assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had been defined by the field in the 19th century. -
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American Experience
The Vote
Sunday
Mar 31
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. -
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American Experience
The Vote
Sunday
Mar 31
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. -
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American Experience
The Cancer Detectives
Sunday
Mar 31
1 Hour
The fight against cervical cancer and three people whose work helped slash death rates from the disease by more than 60 percent. -
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American Experience
The Cancer Detectives
Sunday
Mar 31
1 Hour
The fight against cervical cancer and three people whose work helped slash death rates from the disease by more than 60 percent. -
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American Experience
The Vote
Sunday
Mar 31
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. -
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American Experience
The Vote
Sunday
Mar 31
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. -
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American Experience
The Vote
Sunday
Mar 31
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. -
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American Experience
The Vote
Sunday
Mar 31
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. -
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American Experience
The Vote
Monday
Apr 1
1 Hour
The campaign waged by American women for the right to vote results in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
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